Cameroon’s health ministry on Friday confirmed its first case of
coronavirus, a 58-year-old French citizen who arrived in the capital
Yaounde on Feb. 24.
It said the man has been quarantined in the
city’s Central Hospital. “All measures have been taken by the government
to contain potential risks of the virus spreading,” it said in a
statement.
Cameroon, which is situated in Central Africa, is the
fourth sub-Saharan country to report coronavirus after Nigeria, Senegal
and South Africa. The total number of cases on the continent is 29.
Since
the coronavirus outbreak began in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in
December, it has infected almost 100,000 people worldwide and killed
more than 3,000, mostly in China.
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